Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Moroni Olsen (June 27, 1889 – November 22, 1954) was an American actor. Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah, to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Martha Hoverholst, who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, but there appears to be no support for this claim. Olsen studied at Weber Stake Academy, the predecessor of Weber State University. He then went to study at ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Sign of the Pagan
1954
as Pope Leo I
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosi...
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
as Mr. Tewitt
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage...
Marry Me Again
1953
as Mr. Courtney
Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars ...
So This Is Love
1953
as Arnold Reuben
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Lone Star
1952
as Sam Houston
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam ...
Washington Story
1952
as Speaker Of The House
A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.
At Sword's Point
1952
as Porthos
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize pow...
Submarine Command
1951
as Rear Adm. Joshua Rice
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequ...
No Questions Asked
1951
as Henry Manston
With the help of some seedy gangsters, young attorney Steve Keiver makes some quick cash by bending the law, and in the process, he impresses the mobs...
Father's Little Dividend
1951
as Herbert Dunstan
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...
Payment on Demand
1951
as Mr. Barton
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up wi...
Father of the Bride
1950
as Herbert Dunstan
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...
Samson and Delilah
1949
as Targil
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regr...
Task Force
1949
as Adm. Ames
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the ...
The Fountainhead
1949
as Chairman
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to ...
Command Decision
1948
as Congressman Stone
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties ...
Up in Central Park
1948
as Big Jim Fitts
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
Call Northside 777
1948
as Parole Board Chairman
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal t...
High Wall
1947
as Dr. Philip Dunlap
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county ...
That Hagen Girl
1947
as Trenton Gateley
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her re...
Black Gold
1947
as Don Toland
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
Life with Father
1947
as Dr. Humphries
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Possessed
1947
as Dr. Ames - Mrs. Smith's psychiatrist
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
The Long Night
1947
as Chief of Police Bob McManus
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
as Senior Angel (voice) (uncredited)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinfli...
The Strange Woman
1946
as Rev. Thatcher
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
Notorious
1946
as Walter Beardsley
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c...
Boys' Ranch
1946
as Judge Henderson
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
as Bishop Martin
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
From This Day Forward
1946
as Tim Bagley
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has no...
Mildred Pierce
1945
as Inspector Peterson
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Don't Fence Me In
1945
as Henry Bennett
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of K...
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
as House Detective
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for ...
Pride of the Marines
1945
as Capt. Burroughs
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wif...
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
as General (uncredited)
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap...
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944
as Riley
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by ...
Cobra Woman
1944
as MacDonald
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
Buffalo Bill
1944
as Sen. Frederici
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
as Caliph Hassan
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal thr...
Madame Curie
1943
as President of Businessman's Board (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...
We've Never Been Licked
1943
as Commandant
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with...
Mission to Moscow
1943
as Col. Faymonville
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Air Force
1943
as Col. Blake
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of t...
Reunion in France
1942
as Paul Grebeau
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
as Dr. Henry Olcott
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who...
The Glass Key
1942
as Ralph Henry
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
My Favorite Spy
1942
as Major Allen
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Sundown Jim
1942
as Andrew Barr
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local crim...
Nazi Agent
1942
as Brenner
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and...
Dangerously They Live
1941
as Mr. John Goodwin
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
One Foot in Heaven
1941
as Dr. John Romer
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
as Philip G. Talbot
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Life with Henry
1941
as Sylvanus Q. Sattherwaite
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Respect the Law
1941
as Dr. Walter Terriss
Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
Dive Bomber
1941
as Senior Surgeon at San Diego
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a ste...
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Robert E. Lee
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign...
East of the River
1940
as Judge R.D. Davis
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Brigham Young
1940
as Doc Richards
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...
If I Had My Way
1940
as Mr. Blair
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, alon...
Virginia City
1940
as Cameron
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera...
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
as Major Terry
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Invisible Stripes
1939
as The Warden
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Barricade
1939
as Managing Editor
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939
as Jonathan Forbes
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program ...
Allegheny Uprising
1939
as Tom Calhoon
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many l...
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
as Slim Jones
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter l...
The Bill of Rights
1939
as Royal Governor Dunmore
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figur...
Susannah of the Mounties
1939
as Supt. Andrew Standing
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canad...
Code of the Secret Service
1939
as The friar
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Rose of Washington Square
1939
as Buck Russell
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
The Three Musketeers
1939
as Bailiff
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under ...
Off the Record
1939
as Juvenal Court Judge
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Homicide Bureau
1939
as Captain Haines
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Burea...
Kentucky
1938
as John Dillon - 1938
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with ...
Submarine Patrol
1938
as The Fleet Captain
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
There Goes My Heart
1938
as Fisherman (uncredited)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
That Certain Age
1938
as Fullerton's Associate (uncredited)
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send h...
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Bearded Leader of the People (uncredited)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
What Do You Think? Tupapaoo
1938
as Kurt Larsen
An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island.
Kidnapped
1938
as Douglas
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
as Senator Hearst
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938
as Magic Mirror (voice) (uncredited)
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jeal...
Adventure's End
1937
as First Mate Rand Husk
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being ...
The Last Gangster
1937
as Detective Danny Shea (uncredited)
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and m...
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
as Tartar Chief (Voice) (Uncredited)
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir...
The Plough and the Stars
1936
as General Connally
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
Mummy's Boys
1936
as Dr. Edward Sterling
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient ...
Grand Jury
1936
as Davis, the bodyguard
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and...
Mary of Scotland
1936
as John Knox
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
M'Liss
1936
as Jake
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteache...
The Witness Chair
1936
as Lt. Poole
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking t...
Two in Revolt
1936
as Cyrus Benton
A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.
The Farmer in the Dell
1936
as Chester Hart
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Yellow Dust
1936
as Missouri
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
We're Only Human
1935
as R.J. Curran
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
as Mayor Jim Cargen
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things ...
Annie Oakley
1935
as Col. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
The Three Musketeers
1935
as Porthos
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respect...
Death Takes a Holiday
1934
as Cardinal De Valle (uncredited)
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon ...